Jeremy Wade was brought up in rural Suffolk, England, UK where his father was a vicar. He has a degree in zoology from Bristol University and a postgraduate teaching certificate in biological sciences from the University of Kent, and has worked as a secondary school biology teacher in Kent. He says he taught himself how to be a writer, and has published articles on poaching, fair trade and travel in newspapers and magazines; he is now a TV personality. In order to further pursue his career as a fisherman, Wade made his first trip to India in 1982. Other trips of Wade include traveling to the Congo River and South America . He is currently ranked as the No.1 angler according to the angling news. He revealed techniques in the show River Monsters: Unhooked revisiting the Amazon, that before his first trip there, he studied Portuguese for three hours a day for three months to prepare; he has since worked as a Portuguese-English translator. He is not married and lives in the countryside near Bath.

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